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Monthly Archives: December 2008

For the last four years, punk photographer Mark Beemer’s Shirts For A Cure project has raised money towards the fight to defeat women’s breast cancer. Over 140 bands have donated their name to exclusive shirt designs, with the proceeds going towards various charities. We caught up with Beemer to talk about how the organization formed […]

Metal By Numbers is a weekly coluimn in which we look at the top sellers of the week as well as what’s getting played at Metal Radio courtesy of radio trade magazine FMQB, whose metal panel consists of about 80 college and commercial stations, as well as SiriusXM, Music Choice, and more. In case you […]

Our friends at Relapse Records sent BITPOM a gigantic list of top five and top tens of the year from a bunch of artists on their excellent roster. Instead of parceling them out, like we’d initially planned, we’re going to just give you one gigantic list of year-end goodness. Kevin Hufnagel / Dysrhythmia 1. Extra […]

Dillinger Escape Plan guitarist Benjamin Weiman has a new side project, but it’s not a band. He’s launched a company called Garmutt that makes T-shirts and sweatshirts for dogs, With shirt designs like Black Labbath, Def Shepherd, Linkin Bark, and The Defbones’ White Puppy, Weinman is definitely going after the rock fan that’s also an […]

Metal By Numbers is a weekly coluimn in which we look at the top sellers of the week as well as what’s getting played at Metal Radio courtesy of radio trade magazine FMQB, whose metal panel consists of about 80 college and commercial stations, as well as SiriusXM, Music Choice, and more. For those of […]

With the holidays drawing closer and almost all the new music that’s coming out released by now, it’s time to take a look at the first in a series of what some artists and music industry types liked the most in 2008. Jeremy Spencer/Five Finger Death Punch Top 10 Albums of ’08 1. Disturbed Indestructible […]

Chances are, you might not know the name Sons of Nero, but you’re almost definitely familiar with their work. The graphic design firm, which formed in 2000, is behind many iconic album covers, T-shirts, and Web sites, including acts like Bring Me the Horizon, In Flames, Unearth, Protest the Hero, and 36 CrazyFists. Started in […]

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With Charred Walls of the Damned’s third album, Creatures Watching Over the Dead, coming out on Friday (23), the album is now streaming online at drummer Richard Christy’s other job, at howardstern.com. You can preorder it here.

Late Night With Seth Meyers has already had Mastodon’s Brann Dailor fill in on drums for a week. They’re extending their metal cred by having Anthrax on the show on August 24th, where they’ll be performing “Monster At The End.”

Metallica’s August 20th concert at Minneapolis’ US Bank Stadium will be streamed live on Pandora. Listeners can tune in here at 10pm EST to listen. Until then, you can go there and hear a playlist curated by the band.

Guns N’ Roses will be playing two shows this weekend at the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, and John Varvatos and Bravado have collaborated for a pop-up shop at the John Varvatos store at 315 Bowery (the former site of CBGB). There will be a launch party today from noon-2. More info here.

Wondering where you can stream the Alternative Press Music Awards? Sure you are! They’ll be on the Amazon Music Twitch channel, which we never heard of until now, starting at 7pm on Monday, July 18th. To read more about the APMAs, go here.